After spending years bragging about the removal of troops from Iraq, Obama suddenly changed his narrative after ISIS has ripped through the country, started beheading Christian children and is promising to “raise the flag of Allah at the White House”:
It´s all George Bush´s fault.
“What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision. Under the previous administration, we had turned over the country to a sovereign, democratically elected Iraqi government,” Obama stated, right before leaving for a two-week vacation on Martha’s Vineyard.
Wait…what? Does he not think we will remember all the touting he´s done about taking troops out of the country and how it was his big campaign promise back in 2008? Now suddenly it ´wasn’t his decision´.
What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision. Under the previous administration, we had turned over the country to a sovereign, democratically elected Iraqi government,” Mr. Obama told reporters just before leaving for a two-week vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. “So let’s just be clear: The reason that we did not have a follow-on force in Iraq was because the Iraqis — a majority of Iraqis did not want U.S. troops there, and politically they could not pass the kind of laws that would be required to protect our troops in Iraq. So that entire analysis is bogus and is wrong. But it gets frequently peddled around here by folks who oftentimes are trying to defend previous policies that they themselves made.”
Mr. Obama’s new take on the 2011 troop withdrawal quickly came under fire from a number of political pundits who pointed out the irony of a president moving away, at least in part, from his signature foreign policy achievement.
Ron Fournier of the National Journal tweeted that the president is distancing himself from his own record.
“A promise he kept, and he’s running from it?” he said.
James Taranto, a member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and editor of OpinionJournal.com, said Mr. Obama apparently is no longer claiming credit for the removal of American forces, something that, until now, he frequently boasted about.
“Obama is not only disclaiming responsibility for the troop pullout but blaming it on George W. Bush,” he wrote Monday.
Indeed, Mr. Obama’s most recent description of the 2011 U.S. troop withdrawal differs greatly from how he portrayed it in 2012, when he was running for re-election against Republican Mitt Romney.
While it’s true the administration did support keeping a small residual force in Iraq, Mr. Obama frequently took credit for fully ending American involvement in Iraq and for leaving no U.S. boots on the ground in that country.
In fact, during one October 2012 debate with Mr. Romney, the president seemed to deny that he supported a status of forces agreement with the Iraqi government, a deal that would have formally allowed American troops to remain in Iraq and would have protected them from prosecution in Iraqi courts.
When Mr. Romney said he, like Mr. Obama, believed such an agreement should have been worked out, the president said “that’s not true” and went on to decry the presence of any American forces in Iraq.
“What I would not have done is left 10,000 troops in Iraq that would tie us down. That certainly would not help us in the Middle East. You’ve got to be clear, both to our allies and our enemies, about where you stand and what you mean. Now, you just gave a speech a few weeks ago in which you said we should still have troops in Iraq,” he told Mr. Romney. “That is not a recipe for making sure that we are taking advantage of the opportunities and meeting the challenges of the Middle East.”
Source: washingtontimes.com
Photo: Jacquelyn Martin
What a $#%&!@*
it is g bush fault !!! saddam alive n not murdered by bush n cheney none of this would be going on right now !!!
Does anyone actually care about solving problems or do you prefer just being able to say “I told you so”?
“I do stupid stuff.”
Lmao the racial profiling is real… Smgdh regardless of how long the bush administration had been gone the point is HE $#%&!@*ED UP lol it’s facts.$#%&!@*in wit Hussein them had them folks mad so they got terroristic then old George dumb ass sends god knows how many troops to lose their lives R.I.P. to all loved ones an top of that George W Bush caused the recession as he left the office an spent unecssesary amounts of money funding for a WAR people.But then you dumb muf$#%&!@*as talkin about he can’t lead?Then why tf u ain’t dead?missles comin in left to right killin yo people?You muf$#%&!@*as need to get all that 1990 and 1980 $#%&!@* out of a 2014 vision.As time goes the world grows an developed faster an more sufficient.No matter who would’ve took dat seat in 2008 it still was gone take a lifetime to even restore the funds George bush $#%&!@* ass took from us and that’s why you stupid mutha$#%&!@*as taxes gone up to help eliminate debt.Smh so yeah send them back or as the good old boys say we can go to war as they conquer all the countries they want an then come for you United States of America living mother$#%&!@*as.Enjoy the rest of your evening f**e ass politicians
He looks like he has a dip of snuff in that lip.
Fire his lying, Arrogant ass! He works for us, but forgot his place!
Obama does not . Know how too run this country. He failed at every level . You can not possibly blame that on bush. At least he had balls. Stood up for the good of the country and didnt sell us out. Lets not even go too the amount of debt this bum put us in. Aleast bush had an accuse for his debt .
Oh yea this health system is a blast. Every american will have health. Sure you will but you will pay out your ass for it lol
how”s that hope and change working out for your failed presidency, barry?